Examples of 'quibbling' in a sentence
Meaning of "quibbling"
Quibble (verb) - to argue or raise objections about a trivial matter; to nitpick or find fault with small details. It is often used in a negative context to imply petty or unnecessary criticism
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- present participle of quibble
- petty argument
How to use "quibbling" in a sentence
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You seem to be quibbling over a point of semantics.
So everyone put up with his shoddy quibbling.
Now stop quibbling and help.
I wish that he would refrain from quibbling.
This is all quibbling over words.
I have never been conscious of any quibbling.
Continual quibbling may be penalized by the loss of a life.
I want you to stop this quibbling at once.
There was no quibbling about a couple of bucks here or there.
We may be agreeing but quibbling about tone.
We may be quibbling on the definition of determinism.
While you are standing here quibbling about policy.
Try to do exactly as you are taught without complaining or quibbling.
It was time to stop legalistic quibbling and face up to reality.
They persist in their insupportable carping and quibbling.
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I am not quibbling with the host.
You have already started quibbling.
This moral quibbling is useless.
Quibbling at scientists is one thing.
You are in trouble and you are quibbling for a tip.
The quibbling must cease.
Let us stop the quibbling.
No quibbling with the source.
I do not know why you are quibbling about semantics here.
The quibbling when the little ones get exhausted.
All this is not a matter of quibbling over inconsequential details.
What are we going to do if you keep quibbling.
Stop this quibbling at once.
It will be better than quibbling.
But that kind of quibbling has not entirely disappeared.
The rest is just quibbling.
We are quibbling on a technical point.
It is only the methods that they are quibbling over.
They were quibbling about.
We have here a whole series of certainties on which there is no quibbling.
The time has come to stop quibbling about lawyer confidentiality.
Only those lacking zeal and unwilling to face up to themselves resort to quibbling.
Now you are quibbling.
This constant quibbling between the two of you has got to come to an end.
This is mere quibbling.
This is why quibbling and quarrelling over meaningless things shows a lack of understanding.
He will start quibbling.
There is no quibbling The sweetest relationship.
No time for quibbling.
We have spent considerable time discussing language in a way that looks beyond semantic quibbling.
Stop your quibbling.
All the experts and even lawyers agree that the bill will promote legal quibbling.
No more quibbling.
If properly construed, they destroy legal quibbling.
The issue here is not legalistic quibbling but the future of the enlarged Union.
